An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
